The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-11-23

The Directors of the Bangor & Castine
Railroad Company met recently at Ban
gor, and it was decided to at once procure
estimates from various contraction on
| the cost of building the road
II. A. Mansur's steam shingle mill two
miles from lloulton, was burned at four
this morning together with III 900 shin
| giles. When discovered the fire was be-
You'd control. The bridge neal caught
but was saved by the efforts of the fire
m II. The loss is $1,000; no insurance.
In the Senior exhibition at Colby last
week Mr.. Sucking of Skowhegan, the
last speaker, delivered a thoughtful essay
on Law and the Citizen The speaker
enumerated the manifold benefits to men
OF well executed laws, and showed the
chaos that would arise from disregarded
laws, says the Waterville Sentinel.
The engineering party of Mr.. Warren
Nickerson finds that the route from DeX-
ter to Dover as surveyed is a little short
er and more advantageous than that from
Dexter to Guliford. The engineers will
make II report at the next meeting OF the
Directors of the Dexter and Newport
Railroad to be held in Augusta, Nov.
3Oth. Plans of the two locations are now
being made.
The Rockland Congress, an organiza-
ton similar to the Boston Young Mems
Congress, was instituted in that city last
week with % members, C. +. Littleheld
was elected speaker, 4. X Gould, clerk,
and W. X. Prescott sergent-at-arms. The
purpose of the organization is to study
the parliamentary rules and methods of
proceeds in the American Congress.
Mt. Bigelow in Franklin county re-
ceived its name from a man named Bige-
low, who came to this county with Wolfe,
was with that general in the old French
war and afterward served In the Revolu-
ton. \ canteen made of glass and of a
greensh hue. which Mr.. Bigelow carried
during both wars. is now in the posses
sion of one of his descendants, Mrs.
Nancy Carpenter IIathorne, who lives in
Dover in this State,
The Lewiston Journal suggests that the
Maine State Fair grounds in lewiston
would serve admirably for the proposed
Maine Central stock yard. They are al
ready equipped with side tracks, facilities
for unloading, stalls, etc. The stock
yard could move right in. Using the
grounds for this purpose would not in
tefcre with the State Fair in the least
In respect to location, facilities and
general disturbances, the Fair grounds
beat and place that has yet been recon-
mended for the big Maine stock yard.
The whole broom manufacturing plant
at the county Jail Bangor has been sold
to the State Prison at Thomaston and
will be aiken there within the next few
days. Mr.. Il. ?, Patterson who has con-
Quoted the business there will go to
Thomaston and have charge of the opera
tons at the prison. The business is
given up in Bangor so that more atten-
ton can b. paid to the manufacture of
kindling wood. Another reason is that
the men served such short sentences in
the county Jail that as soon as they learn
to be good workmen they are discharged
There was very tasty wedding at Hal
lowell Nov. lG, the parties most interested
being Mr.. VIM. II. Lowell, formerly of
Hallowell proprietor of the Maine Cen
trail restaurant at Bangor and Miss Clara
L. Bodwell, only daughter of William J.
Bodwell of IIallowell, and grand-niece of
the Governor. The ceremony was per-
formed in the Episcopal church at so by
Rev. Melville Mclaughlin of Watcrville,
the bridesmaid being Miss Annie F. Fuller
of IIalowell, and bridegroom Mr.. F. S.
REYNOLDS of Bangor. The newly married
pair departed west for few days bridal
trip. The presents were numerous and
beautiful